Walker Percy Quotes

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares.

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

I'm a very big Faulkner fan 'cause I'm a Southerner.

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

The South is the only part of the country that has been defeated; the rest of the country, unlike most people in the world have never been conquered. But the Southerners have …. The South is the soul of America.

The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.

There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a piece of fiction.

Southern hospitality, that's where I come from.

I'm Southern to the bone.

I bring a lot of 'y'all' up to New York with me.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us.

In most red states, country music is a major way of life.

I'm a wimp. I'm from Alabama. I don't like the cold.

I certainly think that Southerners are tough, and I take pride in that.

I know that it's the southern film industries that have made me an actor, and that is where people relate to me the most. I would never give it up or separate myself from it.